Arantxa Sanchez Vicario apologizes for her statement against Anabel Medina Garrigues – Tennis News
Spanish Federation Cup captain, Arantxa Sanchez Vicario, has apologized on Thursday for her statement earlier that aroused great hype in the Spanish media. She bashed the number one Spanish tennis icon, Anabel Medina Garrigues,
in a press conference stating that ‘she was a quite problematic player’.
This statement suddenly created a lot of hype and Spanish media inflated the news in the most agonizing way that forced Vicario to hold another press conference and clear all the doubts that she didn’t mean to hurt anyone’s feelings
and her statement was wrongly understood by everyone.
She stated, “No was never my intention to belittle Anabel Medina, whom I respect as a player and for his commitment to the national team. I ask forgiveness if I failed to express myself properly”.
Captain further added, “I decided not to count Anabel Medina and Carla Suárez for the playoff before Slovakia by strictly technical issues, and that is the reason by which are not included in the call.” This press conference cleared
the air and allowed all the team members to know the real meaning of their captain’s statement.
Most of the players were reported to be angered by the way their captain bashed out one of their colleagues. Now the situation is under control and everyone is united for the cause to win the next tie that will take place in Puente
Romano in Marbella on April 21 and 22 against one of the strongest tennis sides in the world, Slovakia.
Garrigues tackled the situation wisely and calmly. She answered her fans via a twitter update, “I understand that a captain is free choose the team to consider better, but disqualify me on a personal level and dirtying my image,
believe that it is out of place. We always have tried to help Spain in the 10 years that led representing it.”
Slovakia is the favourite to win the upcoming tie of the Federation Cup but Spain has a home advantage and the support of the crowd. If they can pull off this upset, Vicario will feel accomplished and the stain on her image will
be washed away.
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